Acronis Boot rescue disk confusion

Having finally got hold of one (the option in my copy of version 9 does nothing!), I decided I should check that it worked. So I booted from the CD, got a message re Acronis in the top left hand corner, and then the PC seemed to boot normally, and skipped the Acronis restore use F11 prompt automatically, and brought windows up as per usual.

NO messages about what state the machine is in, about restoring, just windows as usual.

Confused! Can someone explain what is going on, and what should be going on!!!

What should happen is that eventually you should get an Acronis menu showing the Backup, Recover, Clone etc features. You need to find out why the option for making the CD doesn't work with your installed version of True Image. Does your cd drive work with other cds? Maybe a re-installation of True Image is needed.

What should happen is that eventually you should get an Acronis menu showing the Backup, Recover, Clone etc features. You need to find out why the option for making the CD doesn't work with your installed version of True Image. Does your cd drive work with other cds? Maybe a re-installation of True Image is needed.

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History - I upgraded to 10, and my backups atarted to fail with write errors/permission errors. Had enough so went back to 9. Option to make bootable media, as noted, didn't work, so Acronis (suggests this is a known problem?) pointed me to a download for the ISO image. I burnt this, booted from it, and whilst booting got writing in the top left hand corner of the screen - "Acronis something ... ", and then the PC just went to windows.

Are you using a wireless keyboard or mouse? Do you have multiple usb devices connected, including hubs? Just to cover the bases, run chkdsk /r on that hard drive. I'm also beginning to suspect your CD Drive. Can you swap it out, even temporarily?

Are you using a wireless keyboard or mouse? Do you have multiple usb devices connected, including hubs? Just to cover the bases, run chkdsk /r on that hard drive. I'm also beginning to suspect your CD Drive. Can you swap it out, even temporarily?

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No hub, but I have 3 external disc drives, one DVD drive, + keyboard and mouse on USB. Also an internal DVD drive. Will be doing a chkdsk on my C drive later today when a defrag has finished.

If the keyboard and mouse are connected to front usb ports try them on the rear ports. If that still does not work, and you have standard keyboard and mouse ports (ps2 types) try with a standard keyboard and mouse. And disconnect any externals while you try making the CD once more.

Since you already have contacted Acronis Support Team via e-mail, could you please let us know your Acronis request # so I could find out the instructions you were provided and provide you with the further instructions?